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SUMMARY:Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series: Lauren Klein
DESCRIPTION:Location: Kirby Hall Salon \n\n\n\n\nThis lecture is part of the annual Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Lecture Series. For more information on this lecture or the lecture series\, please visit the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series webpage.\n\n\n\n\nLauren Klein is Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and English at Emory University\, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab and the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Her research brings together computational and critical methods to explore questions of gender\, race\, and justice\, both in early America and today. Klein is the author (with Catherine D’Ignazio) of the award-winning Data Feminism (MIT Press\, 2020)\, and the editor (with Matthew K. Gold) of Debates in the Digital Humanities (Univ. of Minnesota Press)\, among other books and papers. Her next book\, Data by Design: From the History of Visualization to the Future We Need\, is forthcoming from the MIT Press in Fall 2026.
URL:https://news.wilkes.edu/event/allan-hamilton-dickson-spring-writers-series-lauren-klein/
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SUMMARY:Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
DESCRIPTION:Location: Sordoni Art Gallery \n\n\n\n\nThis lecture is part of the annual Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Lecture Series. For more information on this lecture or the lecture series\, please visit the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series webpage.\n\n\n\n\nNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was raised in Spring Valley\, New York\, and now lives in the Bronx. His debut collection\, Friday Black\, was a New York Times bestseller\, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing\, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. His first novel Chain-Gang All-Stars was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction\, winner of the Inside Literary Prize\, shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Books Are My Bag Awards\, and selected as a New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year. Adjei-Brenyah is a National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ honoree.
URL:https://news.wilkes.edu/event/allan-hamilton-dickson-spring-writers-series-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah/
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SUMMARY:Max Rosen Lecture: A Conversation with Award-Winning Bestselling Novelist Amor Towles
DESCRIPTION:Amor Towles\, bestselling author\, will deliver the annual Wilkes University Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities at 2 p.m. on Sunday\, March 15\, 2026\, at the newly-renovated Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts\, 239 South River St.\, Wilkes-Barre\, Pennsylvania. \n\n\n\nTowles’s award-winning novels have collectively sold more than eight million copies and have been translated into more than forty languages. His newest book\, Table for Two (2024)\, was an immediate bestseller and called “a winner” by the New York Times. Towles’s first novel\, Rules of Civility (2011)\, was also a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) was named one of the best books of 2016 by numerous outlets\, including the Washington Post and NPR. \n\n\n\nDebuting at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list\, his third novel\, The Lincoln Highway\, was one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021\, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year\, one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021 and was #1 on Amazon’s list of the Best Books of the Year. It will be made into a movie adapted and directed by Christopher Storer for Warner Brothers. \n\n\n\nDavid Hicks\, PhD\, director of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University\, will moderate a conversation with Towles. Hicks\, a first-generation college student\, earned his doctorate in American Literature at NYU and taught at Pace University in New York as well as Regis University in Denver\, where he co-founded and co-directed the MFA in Creative Writing. \n\n\n\nIn his forties he shifted his work from academic to creative\, first publishing short stories\, then collecting and rearranging them as a novel-in-stories\, White Plains\, published by Conundrum Press (now Bower House Books) in 2017. White Plains was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award\, Arapahoe Libraries 2018 “Village Read\,” and Westword Magazine’s #1 book by Colorado authors. His children’s book\, The Magic Ticket\, was published in 2024 and his second novel\, The Gospel According to Danny\, was published 2025. \n\n\n\nThe Rosenn Lecture is free and open to the public\, though registration is required. \n\n\n\nA book signing in the lobby of the Darte Center will follow the main presentation. Books will be available for purchase the day of the event. \n\n\n\nFor more information and online registration\, visit wilkes.edu/rosenn. \n\n\n\n(Photo credit: Portrait Photography by Leo Jacob)
URL:https://news.wilkes.edu/event/max-rosen-lecture-a-conversation-with-award-winning-bestselling-novelist-amor-towles/
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SUMMARY:Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series: Brionne Janae
DESCRIPTION:Location: Kirby Hall Salon \n\n\n\n\nThis lecture is part of the annual Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Lecture Series. For more information on this lecture or the lecture series\, please visit the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series webpage.\n\n\n\n\nBrionne Janae is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn with their two dogs. They are the author of Because You Were Mine (2023) which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry\, Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize\, and After Jubilee (2017). Brionne is a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow\, a Hedgebrook Alum and a proud Cave Canem Fellow.
URL:https://news.wilkes.edu/event/allan-hamilton-dickson-spring-writers-series-brionne-janae/
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SUMMARY:It was a Good Day: Black Optimistic Realism and Law in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Location: Henry Student Center\, 2nd Floor\, Jean and Paul Adams Commons (JPAC) \n\n\n\nA Black History Month Lecture.  \n\n\n\nMembers of the Wilkes community are invited to a free lecture presented by Dr. Scott Hancock\, associate professor of history and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College. \n\n\n\nIn 1992\, artist Ice Cube released the video “It was a good day.” The video ends with Ice Cube\, who has apparently done nothing wrong\, at least on this particular day\, surrounded by an overwhelming show of force by armed police outside his South Central L.A. home. The video\, in some respects\, can be read as an expression of the lack of faith many Black Americans had in the system and philosophy that supposedly undergirds the Great Experiment—the foundation and continued existence of the United States of America. \n\n\n\nThat existence has never been threatened as it was during the American Civil War. And yet\, many African Americans\, from the country’s founding\, through the Civil War\, and into the 21st century\, have attempted to use law as a primary driver for fundamental legal change. This talk\, starting with stories of two women who escaped slavery\, and carrying through to a contemporary Black writer\, wrestles with the question of whether African Americans have been\, and continue to be\, bamboozled or buttressed by having any optimism in law in the United States. \n\n\n\nAfter spending 14 years working with teenagers in crisis\, Dr. Scott Hancock switched careers and earned a Ph.D. in Early American History in 1999. Both careers fuel his desire to understand how African Americans have shaped and been shaped by American law and memory\, and motivate him to tell the stories of people whom society and history have discounted as troublesome or unimportant. He is currently exploring how places like the Gettysburg battlefield can put African Americans and slavery back into the heart of stories told by landscapes and memorials. Some of his scholarly work has appeared in scholarly journals and anthologies\, such as The Civil War and the Summer of 2020\, They Are Dead and Yet Live\, and his book Walk Up The Hill: A College Student’s Guide to Scholar Activism. As part of trying to be a scholar activist\, he has also written for public audiences in local\, regional and national publications\, and welcomes engaging with people in a variety of forums\, including talking with visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield.
URL:https://news.wilkes.edu/event/it-was-a-good-day-black-optimistic-realism-and-law-in-the-united-states/
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